transcendence
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“Summertime” has endured because it holds emotional resonance for us all: Who cannot identify with comfort, hope and transcendence?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
This transcendence is one of the film’s greatest gifts, a chance to practice serenity and patience when there is little of either.
From Salon • May 2, 2025
The spiritual transcendence portion of the exhibit is marked by multiple television sets that play Coltrane’s show “Eternity’s Pillar,” in which she shared her teachings.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
We have a higher self, a capacity for transcendence.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing transcendence
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 8
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The Fire Next Time
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I'll Give You the Sun
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